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title: In the USA and many other countries children often see a paediatrici… — The GP, the family doctor and the nurse · tree and pragmatics
description: In the USA and many other countries children often see a paediatrician, a children's doctor, for everyday care; in the UK children usually see a GP and meet paediatricians in hospital. Who acts: children, UK children. A sentence of the lesson «The GP, the family doctor and the nurse» of the medicine
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# The GP, the family doctor and the nurse, sentence 14

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In the USA and many other countries children often see a paediatrician, a children's doctor, for everyday care; in the UK children usually see a GP and meet paediatricians in hospital.

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**Who acts:** children, UK children · **What happens:** see, meet · **To what, where:** paediatrician, USA, GP, paediatricians, hospital

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The GP, the family doctor and the nurse» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, UK children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:025-the-gp-the-family-doctor-and-the-nurse.lesson:14
# text = In the USA and many other countries children often see a paediatrician, a children's doctor, for everyday care; in the UK children usually see a GP and meet paediatricians in hospital.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 025-the-gp-the-family-doctor-and-the-nurse.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
8	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	often	often	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	paediatrician	paediatrician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	everyday	everyday	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
21	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=10:punct
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:det
25	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
27	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	GP	gp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	meet	meet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
33	paediatricians	paediatrician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | children | a paediatrician |  | the USA and many other countries |  | for everyday care; often *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer paediatrician=Stimulus |
| 2 | **see** | present | UK children | a GP |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gp=Stimulus |
| 3 | **meet** | present | UK children *not said here* | paediatricians |  | hospital |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paediatrician=Co-Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:medicine:025-the-gp-the-family-doctor-and-the-nurse.lesson:14`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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